Moving Beyond Collaboration

A Model for Enhancing Social Work’s Organizational Empathy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10553900
AutoresEd Silverman (Ed Silverman, PhD, is division chair of social work, Keuka College, One Keuka Business Park, Penn Yan, NY; e-mail: [email protected], autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen63
Número4
Páginas297-304
Fecha de publicación2018-08-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Work (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0037-8046 • E-ISSN: 1545-6846
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/sw/swy034
PMID30113662
OpenAlexW2887836186
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas17

Many first-year field students and new practitioners enter the "fog of practice" seeking a strong mentor who will teach them to survive and thrive in the practice world. They are armed with much social work-related ideology but perhaps too little organizational knowledge and savvy. This challenge may be traced back to another historical professional debate: the imbalance between micro and macro social work education and training. This article addresses the challenge by introducing the overarching competency of organizational empathy, defined as an understanding of the practice environment one occupies. The major objective of this article is to help bridge an academe-practice knowledge gap, thereby giving the social work practitioner enhanced opportunities for broader organizational influence, collaboration, and leadership

Bridge (graph theory · Empathy · Ideology · Management · Organization development · Organizational culture · Organizational learning · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Interprofessional Education and Collaboration · Medicine · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work